[chapter-delegates] Urgent reminder - send your email congratulations for Cerf and Kahn

[Gene Gaines]

Urgent reminder - Please send us your chapter's email
congratulations for Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn as soon as
possible to info at dcisoc.org, please also copy to
cerf-kahn at gainesgroup.com.

I have not been able to contact a number of ISOC chapters.
Please check that your chapter has sent an email for the
event, assuming you wish to do so.  All are welcome to
send an email, for your chapter or as an individual.

Thanks.  Gene Gaines

Details below.


A number of ISOC Chapters are coming together to honor Vint 
Cerf and Bob Kahn on the occasion of their winning the important
ACM Turing Award.

Both men are members of our local Washington DC ISOC Chapter,
so our Chapter has volunteered to host the event.

It will take place the evening of Tuesday, May 10, 2005 from 
7:00 - 9:30 p.m. Eastern US time (11:00 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. UMT).

The meeting announcement is below.

I am inviting your Chapter to participate in the evening.

1) We hope that your Chapter will be able to send us an email 
  that we can present to Vint and Bob during the evening --
  to be one of many chapters that will be sending good wishes,
  congratulations, and possibly to thank them for all the work
  they have contributed to ISOC and to ISOC Chapters in many 
  countries.

  We expect to print and bind these emails, and give copies to
  Vint and Bob to remember the evening.

  If you are able to send such an email, please let me know
  that you plan to do so.  Just hit REPLY and tell me your 
  intentions, and email your message in the next 24 hours to:
  info at dcisoc.org, please also copy cerf-kahn at gainesgroup.com.

2) If you are interested, we can set up a freeze-frame video,
  instant messaging or voice connection for you to come in
  during the meeting and give your greetings to Vint and Bob
  live over the Internet, as a number of chapters plan to do. 

  Please let me know if you wish to arrange this, just a REPLY
  to this email will do, and I then will contact you.

Sorry for such short notice.  This is the only date that we can
arrange in the next several months that both Vint and Bob can 
attend.

The announcement we sent out for the evening is below.

Please participate.  We see this as a good step in ISOC Chapters
becoming more active, learning more about each other, and in
cooperating together to mutual benefit. 

Gene Gaines
Vice President, DCISOC
gene.gaines at gainesgroup.com

Martin Burack
President, DCISOC
marty at burack.nu 

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A Washington DC Appreciation Evening for Vint Cerf & Bob Kahn

Date:   Tuesday, May 10, 2005, 7 - 9:30 p.m.
Where:  Booz Allen World Headquarters, McLean, Virginia 
Host:   DCISOC - Washington DC Chapter of the Internet Society

Our own Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf, as you probably know, have been
named winners of the Association for Computing Machinery's annual
Turing Award. 

The ACM (www.acm.org) is recognized as the premier organization
for computing professionals, and its Turing Award has honored
the computer scientists and engineers who created the systems 
and underlying theoretical foundations that have propelled the
information technology industry.

The Turing Award will be presented at the ACM Awards Banquet in
San Francisco, in June.

We're proud of this further recognition for the pioneering 
efforts of Vint and Bob. Since we all can't get to the ACM
meeting in San Francisco, the chapter will hold a meeting to
express our gratitude for everything Bob and Vint have done,
not just for the industry but for ISOC as well. 

The evening will start with a social hour, with time to say
hello to Vint and Bob. Several speakers (including Dennis
Doughty, President, Booz-Allen-Hamilton Worldwide Technology
Business) will touch briefly on the differences the Internet 
has brought to the world. Internet pioneer Steve Crocker will
ask Bob and Vint to share their thoughts, looking back on
three decades of remarkable change and to the future.

We will have available replica copies of historical (Internet) 
documents which Vint and Bob may be so kind as to autograph for
us.

During the evening, leaders of ISOC chapters around the world
will be joining the meeting via the Internet to congratulate
Vint and Bob, and thank the two for their key roles in the start 
and growth of the Internet, as well as in creating ISOC.

To attend, please R.S.V.P. to info at dcisoc.org. We need to give
Booz Allen a count of the expected number of attendees, as they 
graciously will be providing refreshments.

Date:   May 10th (Tuesday)
Time:   7:00-9:30 p.m.
Place:  Booz-Allen-Hamilton
           Allen Building - Conference Center
           8283 Greensboro Drive 
           McLean, VA 22102
           Telephone: 1 (703) 902-5000

Map and detailed driving directions:
  www.dcisoc.org/bah_directions.pdf   or
   www.dcisoc.org/bah_directions.gif